English-Language Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.

• Question 2421:

  Choose the option that has the same stress as the given word.

  dovetail?

  Options:
  A) proviso
  B) simplicity
  C) jargon
  D) psychiatry
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2422:

  If our thoughts is to be clear and we are to succeed in communicating it to other people, we must have some method of fixing the meaning of the words we use. When we use a word whose meaning is not certain, we may well be asked to define it. There is a usual traditional device for doing this by indicating the class to which whatever is indicated by the term belongs and also other particular property which distinguishes it from all other members of the same class. Thus we may define a whale as a ‘marine animal that spouts’. ‘Marine animals’ in this definition indicates the general class to which the whale belongs and ‘spouts’ indicates the particular property that distinguishes whales from other such marine animals as fishes, seals, jellyfish and lobsters. In the same way, we can define an even number as a finite integer divisible by two or a democracy as a system of government in which the people themselves rule.

  there are other ways, of course of indicating the meaning of words. We may for example, find it hard to make a suitable definition of the word ‘animal’, as we say that an animal is such a thing as a rabbit, dog fish or goat. Similarly, we may say that religion is such a system as Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism. This way of indicating the meaning of a term by enumerating examples of what it includes is obviously of limited usefulness. If we indicate our use of the word ‘animal’ as above, our hearers might for example be doubtful whether a sea-anemone or a slug was to be included in the class of animals. It is however, a useful way of supplementing a definition if the definition itself id definite without being easily understandable. Failure of an attempt at definition to serve its purpose may result from giving as distinguishing mark one which either does not belong to all the things the definition id intended to include, or does belong to some members of the same general class which the definition is intended to exclude.

  Which of the following statements can be deduced from the passage? Options:
  A) definition aid communication when enumeration is accurately handled
  B) accurate definition is invalvable to communication but difficult to achieve
  C) every speaker or writer has a method of defining words
  D) there are both traditional and modern methods of defining words
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 2423:

  Choose the option opposite in meaning to the underlined word(s).

  That little boy has become quite chubby?

  Options:
  A) thin
  B) intelligent
  C) huge
  D) tall
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2424:

  In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase(s) underlined:

  The patient disregarded the advice of the doctor

  Options:
  A) ignored
  B) disobeyed
  C) questioned
  D) respected
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2425:

  Choose the word that has an opposite meaning to the one in bracket for questions below.

  The sick man is now [ambulatory]

  Options:
  A) recovering gradually
  B) walking
  C) sound in health
  D) immobile
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2426:

  From the options lettered A-D, choose the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the underlined word.

  My father is parsimonious

  Options:
  A) thrifty
  B) ungenerous
  C) frugal
  D) generous
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2427:

  For these questions, choose the option that best complete the gap(s):

  After too much exercise, some people suffer from eramp which is caused by the_______ of the muscles.

  Options:
  A) contraction
  B) restriction
  C) conscription
  D) relaxation
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 2428:

  Boxing is sometimes called' the noble art of self defence'. According to some people, boxing appeals to the lowest instincts in the ...11... who have come to watch blood flow and their fellow human suffer Boxers who are medically fit appear in the ...12... The referee sometimes allows the...13... to go on for long so that one of the ...14... is reduced to a human punch bag.It may happen that the boxers are not well ...15... one being much stronger than the other, as a result of which he so much...16... his opponent that he wins ...17... Many boxers have suffered permanent brain...18... in the ...19... of punches that have been thrown at them during their ...20...

  Choose the most appropriate option for the gap labelled [...14...] above.

  Options:
  A) assailants
  B) disputants
  C) contestants
  D) brawlers
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 2429:

  Ansa licked his lips and said furtively, look this is between you and me. Jimi would be angry if I told you nut his brother is well, we suspect he sometimes sells drugs and ...'

  From the excerpt above, Ansa was talking to.

  Options:
  A) Risikat and Nene
  B) Novi
  C) Caro
  D) Efua and Nene
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 2430:

  In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase which best fills the gap(s):

  The ceremony was rounded _____ very late.

  Options:
  A) up
  B) off
  C) of
  D) out
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  The correct answer is B .